Take children to participate in area Easter egg hunts this year

A bilingual Easter Sunday Mass is also set for 1 p.m.at St. Patrick’s.

Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church will have a sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. on the beach at Hunter Valley Farm.

Holly Grove Disciples of Christ, Clinton is in need of a keyboard player for the first, second and fourth Sundays.

Easter Sunrise Service: 7:30 a.m. Chaires United Methodist Church, 620 Benjamin Chaires Road. Breakfast will be served.

Lompoc Presbyterian Church – Worship begins at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

Easthampton – Easthampton Congregational Church, UCC, 112 Main St. will hold a sunrise Easter service, on Sunday, March 27 at 6:30 a.m.at Molitoris Orchards, 87 Park Hill Road.

The church hopes to return to having the service at the park once the construction is complete, associate pastor Adam Mumpower said.

March 25: 7 p.m., Good Friday service at Castlewood Alliance Church.

Emmanuel Community Church, 180 Western Ave., 10 a.m. Sunday service.

River Oaks Community Church, which meets in Blackman High School at 3956 Blaze Drive in Murfreesboro, will have a candlelight communion service at 6:30 p.m. Friday. The Rev Lemetrius Johnson will be our guest speaker of the Ebenezer AME Church, Winnsboro, SC. He’s the grandson of the late Rev. Tryon Eichelburger.

At 8 a.m. Easter, the service will include the Resurrection of Our Lord – Resurrection Matins, Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and the blessing of Easter baskets.

Christian Life will consolidate services for their Purcell and Lexington campuses this year, with one service at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Lexington.

Lompoc Foursquare Church – Sunday service times are 8, 9:15 and 10:45 a.m. Childcare ages newborn to 8th grade are for the 9:15 and 10:45 a.m. services only. Music rendered by the combine choir and male chorus.

Holy Week, sponsored by the Hardin County Ministerial Association, started Monday off with special services held daily at noon at First Baptist Church on Main Street, Savannah. The messenger will be Elder Patrick Stewart, and music rendered by the gospel choir. Take lawn chairs. Breakfast will follow the service in the fellowship hall of Christ United Methodist Church.

“The Road to Easter” at Christ the King Lutheran Church continues on Resurrection Day on Sunday with the theme, “The Road to New Life”. The pastor, Apostle Blonny Aycock, will minister the word. Prayer, music, homily and sacraments will be offered.

On Holy Saturday, The Paschal Vigil will be at 7p.m. There will be skits from the bible, singing and praise dancing.

There will be 6,000 Easter eggs hidden for several different age groups, lots of games hosted by clowns and other members of the church staff.

Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Easter breakfast; 10:45 a.m., Easter worship.

Sterling Foursquare Church, 427 N. Fifth St., will hold a 7 p.m. Good Friday Communion Service today, and 9 and 11 a.m. Easter Sunday Celebration Services, with an Easter Egg Hunt between services. UCCH will also hold a Taize service at 7:30 p.m. Friday. There will be no Sunday school classes. On Saturday, an Easter celebration will be at 3 p.m. followed by a 6 p.m. service.

An Easter Vigil service is being held at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Church, 1465 Grand Ave. The objective of the tenebrae service is to recreate the emotional aspects of the Passion Story – the betrayal, abandonment and agony of the events, and it is left unfinished, because the story isn’t over until Easter Day, reads a statement from the First Congregational.

The Inner City Youth Enrichment Camp (ICYEC) invites the community to its third annual Stop the Violence and Bring the Peace event to be from 11 a.m.to 5 p.m. Saturday at Olinda Park, 2101 NW 51st St.in Miami.

– A Lenten drama and cantata “The Easter Carol” will be presented during the 8 a.m. service on Easter Sunday at Community Baptist Church, 4821 Barbee Road in Durham.